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Flash: Perriello to Vote Yes

An update on Tom Perriello, who’d been a holdout on health care (he voted yes on the House bill last November but was uncommitted on the various compromise plans since then): he’ll vote for the Senate bill as long as the Senate holds up its end and passes a reconciliation bill that removes the indefensible pieces of fat from its own version.

I got the news in an e-mail from the campaign of one of his Republican challengers, Laurence Verga, a Charlottesville property developer, who wrote: “It is absolutely disgraceful that Perriello will ignore his constituents’ overwhelming opposition to an unconstitutional government takeover of 1/6th of our economy…. We can’t let Mr. Perriello and his Democrat colleagues ‘steal’ any more of our and future generations’ money.”

More on Verga and the Republican opposition to Perriello in Virginia next week.